ENOVIA 3DLive software provides global teams with a 3D immersive environment that serves as a shared workspace for all product-related data, regardless of where the data resides. With 3D, users can easily share and understand product details. This common understanding of issues allows users to find and solve problems early in the lifecycle, reducing costs and improving time to market.

ENOVIA 3DLive delivers direct access to the rich PLM information in Dassault Systèmes Version 6 (V6) as well as other DS PLM solutions such as ENOVIA® VPM™ V4 and VPM™ V5, ENOVIA SmarTeam®, ENOVIA MatrixOne, DELMIA®, and SIMULIA®. By integrating with multiple Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) systems and other enterprise systems, an ENOVIA 3DLive user has the ability to search and navigate on multiple data sources in real time. This consolidated view, directly in 3D, enables a paradigm shift in decision-making.

With ENOVIA 3DLive, all enterprise stakeholders are active participants in the product development process, employing the collective intelligence of all functional areas of a company as well as partners and suppliers. Users are immersed in a visually rich, real-time environment where online “virtual” teams and communities are brought together quickly. Stakeholders can search, navigate, chat, perform co-reviews and collaborate on any aspect of the product—and all with just an Internet connection.

ENOVIA 3DLive enables users to work in an online environment and with local data. Users can share data through 3DXML, a universal, lightweight XML-based format developed by Dassault Systèmes. 3DXML enables users to capture and share live, accurate 3D data quickly and easily, and is useful for sharing 3D and PLM information with stakeholders that are not connected to a PLM database. Users can facilitate collaboration and further leverage IP by embedding 3DXML easily in 3DVIA® Composer and 3DVIA® Virtools as well as Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer.

Live Applications

ENOVIA 3DLive can be extended with additional “Live” products for specialized PLM functions and processes. These include:

- CATIA Live FTA Review

- CATIA Live Shape

- CATIA Live Compose

- CATIA Live Rendering

- CATIA Live Sheetmetal

- DELMIA Live Shopfloor Review

- ENOVIA Live Collaborative Review

- ENOVIA Live Rights Manager

- ENOVIA Live Similarity

ENOVIA 3DLive Delivers the Promise of Innovation Today

ENOVIA 3DLive brings innovation to the forefront of your business activities in a 24/7 on demand environment. Access and share all the data in the context of your business process in real time. By combining the universal language of 3D with advanced indexing and searching tools, information sharing and collaboration barriers disappear. Users can even access data while offline.

ENOVIA 3DLive brings innovation to the forefront of your business activities in a 24/7, on demand environment. Access and share all the data in the context of your business process in real time. By combining the universal language of 3D with advanced indexing and searching tools, information sharing and collaboration barriers disappear. Users can even access data while offline.

From design program updates to supplier meetings to last minute shop floor changes, collaboration is fast and as easy as surfing the Web. Users can problem solve on line collaboratively and innovate because of efficient and intuitive search tools. Quality, compliance, risks, and customer requirements are handled early in the development process, saving time and money. Users make the right decisions, at the right time on the right data and communicate these decisions to all affected stakeholders in real time, enabling a new paradigm of innovation for an enterprise.

Address program and project execution issues instantly, collaborating with stakeholders by visualizing risks and milestones in 3D

React quickly to compliance issues by enabling program managers to visually identify in 3D the parts and responsible owners for taking action

By providing a single environment of all the PLM information required to understand, collaborate and make decisions in today’s distributed organizations, ENOVIA 3DLive allows companies to:

Effortlessly connect all knowledge workers to enterprise IP and to each otherAccelerate product searches while ensuring accurate and up-to-date results
Quickly navigate, browse and intuitively access the full product definition
Collaborate easily, efficiently, and accurately
Create and configure 3D Dashboards to follow project progress and make knowledgeable decisions

Single Environment to Access All PLM Information

ENOVIA 3DLive provides every enterprise user a single environment of all the PLM information required to understand, collaborate and make decisions in today’s spread-out organizations, dealing with more complex products and silos of information. ENOVIA 3DLive leverages PLM data into business intelligence, enabling on-demand 3D collaboration while offering a unique user experience based on an efficient search of PLM information and navigation simplicity. Dassault Systèmes’ Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides ENOVIA 3DLive users with access to multiple PLM sources (including ENOVIA® V6, ENOVIA® MatrixOne, ENOVIA® SmarTeam, ENOVIA® VPM™ V4, ENOVIA® VPM™ V5, and 3DXML files) while leveraging advanced collaboration scenarios between all the stakeholders. Users can even access ENOVIA 3DLive while offline to view items by simply extracting a 3DLive license and copying it locally.

3D and Semantic Search

ENOVIA 3DLive has a classic semantic search tool relying on a multiple criteria definition to find objects. The search offers different ways to drill into large data volumes while navigating in 3D. This includes various query methods such as proximity, bounding box, sphere, pick, and zone query. Users can access any part instance in less than two clicks, in real time, whatever the model size (as an alternative to the classical method of navigating step by step through the product structure to access parts). As an additional option, an enhanced view of 3D search results is presented as a collection of “thumbnail” images on a 3D display. With a simple click on a thumbnail image, a user can preview an item in 3D. ENOVIA 3DLive also supports configuration information and security settings to provide accurate information while preserving IP.

Data Navigation and Review

Using ENOVIA V6 federation capabilities, 3DLive can combine metadata from multiple enterprise data sources and include this information in the 3D representation of the associated object. Thus, an assembly that has critical information needed for decision making in multiple data sources can use ENOVIA 3DLive to create a federated bill of material (BOM). By leveraging configurable business rules in the 3DLive compass, a user can dynamically access this data in real time to view unique and powerful views of the assembly. Thus, a purchasing manager or procurement specialist can instantly navigate the 3D model and see the total cost of the assembly and exactly which parts are meeting assigned cost targets. This allows mangers to respond immediately to potential problems.

User Collaboration

Collaboration within ENOVIA 3DLive is enhanced through support of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and IBM’s Lotus Sametime 7.5.1. Users may communicate with and initiate collaboration with people not actively logged into ENOVIA 3DLive. A “buddy list” provides role-based access to current information. Chat and co-reviews via audio/video integration, persistent notes, and meeting minutes collected instantaneously are available also.

Publish, Share and Reuse 3DModels on 3DSwYm

ENOVIA 3DLive users can search, explore, and access 3D media from the communities on www.3dswym.com in order to leverage the full power of “the Cloud”. A seamless integration of 3D media between ENOVIA 3DLive and 3DSwYm online professional communities is provided. As a result, a “virtual company” can be formed for sharing innovations and connecting ideas across different locations and organizations.

Visualize CATIA V6 Drawings

ENOVIA 3DLive users can participate in the CATIA drawing review processes. Drawing content can be previewed throughout the 3DLive user experience. A multi-sheet view is supported when examining a drawing document and simple verifications can be done with non-persistent measure capabilities. For more advanced CATIA drawing review ENOVIA Live Validation can be used, which provides all the review tools for efficient collaboration with architects and designers.

Stereoscopic Viewing

ENOVIA 3DLive’s stereoscopic viewing delivers the most realistic visual representation possible of complex digital models, giving the best possible understanding of three-dimensional information, and yielding levels of technical proficiency not possible using a regular 3D viewer.
Stereoscopic viewing is delivered into two different ways:
“High End” realistic visual representation requires specific stereoscopic equipment with quad buffer OpenGL compatibility like the popular Nvidia 3D Vision technology, or 3D TVs.
“Entry-Range” realistic visual representation allows anybody to benefit from the stereoscopic effect with only a pair of paper “blue/red” glasses.